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El Sol Rojo (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1968

Work

El Sol Rojo (1:5 intermediate maquette)

Date 1968
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
11'3" × 9'3"
Collection
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd B. Wescott, the Association for the Arts of the NJSM and Museum, 1969el sol r
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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El Sol Rojo (1968)
El Sol Rojo, 1968
Chronology  3
8 November 1967

Calder sends final instructions from Saché for El Sol Rojo, the stabile he created for the 1968 summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.

31 December 1967

After spending Christmas in the United States, the Calders arrive in Mexico City, where Calder oversees work on the intermediate maquette for El Sol Rojo.

11 December 1968

The Calders return to Mexico City, where they view El Sol Rojo in place at Aztec Stadium.

Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
El Sol Rojo (1968)
El Sol Rojo, 1968
The Tall One (1968)
The Tall One, 1968
Gwenfritz (1:5 intermediate maquette) (1968)
Gwenfritz (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1968
Gwenfritz (1968)
Gwenfritz, 1968
Works / Stabile 251
The Tall One (maquette) (1968)
The Tall One (maquette), 1968
Three Discs, One Missing (1968)
Three Discs, One Missing, 1968
Three Discs, One Lacking (1968)
Three Discs, One Lacking, 1968
Spinal Column (1968)
Spinal Column, 1968
Related Timeline
1963–1976
1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.